Thoma Bravo's latest move is its planned $3.6 billion acquistion of Riverbed. The private investment firm has been capitalizing on enterprise IT and information security with billions of dollars in investments in a number of companies.

A study of a sampling of insurance claims over the past year has identified claim payouts of up to $13.7 million associated with data breach costs. Health-care-related breach costs are substantially higher than any other data type, the study finds.

Cisco Systems' acquisition of Chicago-based Neohapsis is part of a broader trend of technology and security vendors adding on a mix of managed and professional security services to meet customer demand.

SAP is stepping up its push to secure Fortune 1000 enterprise applications with an announcement that it has signed an agreement for its direct sales force to resell HP's Fortify application security software.

The platform that enables Google customers to run their web applications on Google cloud infrastructure contains at least 30 vulnerabilities. Solution providers say they expect Google to weigh the customer risk and address the most critical issues.

The Turla targeted attack toolkit was designed to strike at Microsoft Windows PCs, but new malware components suggest an attack against users of Linux systems. Meanwhile, a new report finds that vulnerability disclosures in mainstream software are increasing, giving criminals a broader attack surface.

Executives at Sony Pictures Entertainment are struggling to recover from an attack that crippled the company's corporate network and enabled attackers to gain access to confidential business documents, including executive salaries and unreleased movies.

Hewlett-Packard is adding more storage capacity and boosting the power of its correlation engine in the latest version of ArcSight ESM to stave off continued pressure from competitors attempting to unseat its market-leading position.

Google Cloud Platform, the company's portfolio of cloud products and services, has been validated for compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards. The company joins Amazon and others in achieving the status.

A new virulent form of destructive malware can overwrite data on critical systems, according to a confidential FBI memo obtained by Reuters. Destructive malware has caused costly disruptions at businesses in the past.